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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
ISBN: 9780141181424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie includes an introduction by Candia McWilliam in Penguin Modern Classics. Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, unconventional ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy - 'the creme de la creme' - who become the Brodie 'set', introduced to a privileged world of adult games that they will never forget. Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was adapted into a successful stage play, and later a...
Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie includes an introduction by Candia McWilliam in Penguin Modern Classics. Romantic, heroic, comic and trag...
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The Novels of Muriel Spark: Eight Pack
ISBN: 9780811223454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 1504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This package includes these eight Muriel Spark novels: The Comforters, Memento Mori, The Driver's Seat, Territorial Rights, Loitering with Intent, The Bachelors, A Far Cry from Kensington, and The Ballad of Peckham Rye
This package includes these eight Muriel Spark novels: The Comforters, Memento Mori, The Driver's Seat, Territorial Rights, Loitering with Intent, The...
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The Bachelors
ISBN: 9781782117551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and Trollope, Wilde and Wodehouse. It demands rediscovery. 'It's easy to see why Waugh admired The Bachelors. On one level, it is a blithely carnivorous satire in the Waugh mould. The bachelors of the title - almost the only men we meet in the narrative - are the thirty-something male barristers, teachers, journalists and museum attendants of a small patch of West London. They lead inturned, doddery, superannuated lives, pottering between... The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and Trollope, ... |
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
ISBN: 9780241956779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged Penguin Essentials edition. 'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life . . .' Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the creme de la creme, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into a world of adult games and extracurricular...
Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged Penguin Essentials ...
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The Finishing School
ISBN: 9781400077397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From Muriel Spark, the grande dame of literary satire, comes this swift, deliciously witty tale of writerly ambition that recalls her beloved The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.College Sunrise is a somewhat louche and vaguely disreputable finishing school located, for now, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he works, somewhat falteringly, on his novel. Into Rowland s creative writing class comes seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a red-haired literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress, on Mary Queen of Scots, has...
From Muriel Spark, the grande dame of literary satire, comes this swift, deliciously witty tale of writerly ambition that recalls her beloved The Prim...
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John Masefield
ISBN: 9781784101329 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) John Masefield (1878-1967) lived a life as varied as his work. At the age of fifteen he went to sea as an apprentice in a windjammer and made the voyage round Cape Horn. The next three years he spent in New York, in a bakery, a livery stable, a saloon and a carpet factory. Back in England, he wrote for the Guardian and in the First World War served with the Red Cross. Throughout these years he had been writing poetry, and when in 1923 his Collected Poems appeared they sold over 200,000 copies. In 1930 he succeeded Robert Bridges as Poet Laureate.
John Masefield (1878-1967) lived a life as varied as his work. At the age of fifteen he went to sea as an apprentice in a windjammer and made the voya...
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The Girls of Slender Means
ISBN: 9780811213790 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in theSunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."
Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in theSunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and ee...
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Die Blütezeit der Miss Jean Brodie : Roman
ISBN: 9783257070088 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "Gebt mir ein Mädchen im formbaren Alter, und es ist mein, ein Leben lang."
"Gebt mir ein Mädchen im formbaren Alter, und es ist mein, ein Leben lang."
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Not to Disturb: A Novel
ISBN: 9780811218672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A winter s night; a luxurious mansion near Geneva; a lucrative scandal. The first to arrive is the secretary dressed in furs with a bundle of cash, then the Baron, and finally the Baroness. They lock themselves in the library with specific instructions not to be disturbed for any reason. Soon, shouts and screams emerge from the library; the Baron s lunatic brother starts madly howling in the attic; two of the secretary s friends are left waiting in a car; a reverend s services are needed for an impromptu wedding and despite all that the servants obey their orders as they pass the time playing...
A winter s night; a luxurious mansion near Geneva; a lucrative scandal. The first to arrive is the secretary dressed in furs with a bundle of cash, th...
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Memento Mori
ISBN: 9781844085521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Muriel Spark's 'Memento Mori', first published in 1959, is among the finest novels by one of the most witty and inclusive British writers of recent times. It tells the acidly funny story of a group of elderly people who start to receive threatening phone calls telling them 'remember, you must die'.
Muriel Spark's 'Memento Mori', first published in 1959, is among the finest novels by one of the most witty and inclusive British writers of recent ti...
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The Letters of Muriel Spark (Volume 1)
ISBN: 9780349014340 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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The Bachelors
ISBN: 9780811222983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs, the cozy bachelors (as any Spark reader might guess) are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon enough, the men are variously tormented defrauded or stolen from, blackmailed or pressed to attend horrid seances and then plunged into the nastiest of lawsuits."
First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs, the cozy bachelors (as any Spark reader might guess) are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon e...
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Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Girls of Slender Means, Driver's Seat & the Only Problem
ISBN: 9781857152746 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Four novels in one; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls Of Slender Means, The Driver's Seat, The Only Problem.
Four novels in one; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls Of Slender Means, The Driver's Seat, The Only Problem.
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
ISBN: 9780063459816 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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The Driver's Seat
ISBN: 9780811223010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Driven mad by an office job, Lise flies south on holiday in search of passionate adventure and sex. In this metaphysical shocker, infinity and eternity attend Lise s last terrible day in the unnamed southern city that is her final destination."
Driven mad by an office job, Lise flies south on holiday in search of passionate adventure and sex. In this metaphysical shocker, infinity and eternit...
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Memento Mori
ISBN: 9780811223041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone reminds each: Remember you must die. Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled, and many an old unsavory secret is dusted off.
In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone reminds each: Remember you must die. ...
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The Public Image: A Virago Modern Classic
ISBN: 9781844089673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public under her spell, her perfect image must be carefully cultivated, whatever the cost. Beneath the facade, though, her husband cannot bear her or their vapid existence. Envious of her success, he plots his revenge and stages a scandal even Annabel will find a challenge to recover from.
Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public under h...
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The Ballad of Peckham Rye
ISBN: 9780141188355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. He succeeds, but not quite in the way his employer intended. Strange things begin to happen as Dougal exerts an uncanny influence on the inhabitants of Peckham Rye and brings lies, tears, blackmail and even murder into the lives of all he meets, from Miss Merle Coverdale, head of the typing pool, to Beauty, the resident femme fatale, and even Mr Druce, the unsuspecting Managing Director himself.
A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. He succeeds, b...
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The Public Image
ISBN: 9780811212465 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Spark chooses Rome, "the motherland of sensation," for the setting of her story about movie star Annabel Christopher (known to her adoring fans as "The English Lady-Tiger"), who has made the fatal mistake of believing in her public image. This error and her embittered husband, and unsuccessful actor, catch up with her. Her final act is only the first shocking climax further surprises await. Neatly savaging our celebrity culture, Spark rejoices in one of her favorite subjects the clash between sham and genuine identity and provides Annabel with an unexpected triumph."
Spark chooses Rome, "the motherland of sensation," for the setting of her story about movie star Annabel Christopher (known to her adoring fans as "Th...
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The Public Image
ISBN: 9780140031317 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Annabel Christopher is a goddess to her adoring Italian public, her loving husband part of her perfect image. To keep the eager sycophants, ruthless paparazzi and anxious admirers under her spell the image must be carefully cultivated. Only Annabel hasn't calculated on the plans of her husband.
Annabel Christopher is a goddess to her adoring Italian public, her loving husband part of her perfect image. To keep the eager sycophants, ruthless p...
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